Re: Nested parentheses

J de Boyne Pollard filted:

If one can reasonably nest quotation marks, one can reasonably nest
parentheses. (Unfortunately, unlike the case with quotation marks,
where British editors, at least, have always had the choice of
employing a progression from single to double marks to indicate the
level of nesting, there isn't a similar choice of single or double
marks for parentheses. [Square brackets can be used, of course. But
they aren't clearly double marks.])

American editors can employ the same progression from single to double
quote-marks; it's just the progression over here runs from the inside out....

They gave us brackets in math and told us that the curved ones are innermost,
with the square ones outside those, and the frilly ones (if needed) outside the
whole shebang...in computer programming, of course, each kind of brackets
surrounds different kinds of things, unless you're working in PL/1 which, like
narrative, uses only the curved kind for every conceivable purpose....r


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